In the past, some security analysts had speculated that FBI may be using drones within U.S. in order to keep an eye on U.S. citizens. As it turns out, the speculation was right on spot, as is evident from the recent Senate hearing during which, FBI Director admitted that the agency was using drones for domestic surveillance.
A couple of days ago one of the most curious and utopian conferences, the Global Future 2045 International Congress, took place in New York City from June 15-16, where some of the brightest minds in the field of neuroscience, biotechnology and robotics assembled to discuss the prospect of transferring the human brain and mind out of the biological body and into an artificial vessel. 32-year-old Russian billionaire Dmitry Itskov also spoke there. He said that he believes that it’s possible to transfer human brain to machines by 2045 and live forever.
Vine, the popular service which essentially lets you post video tweets, was launched only a while ago. However, in a rather brief time, it has been able to amass more than 13 million users. Twitter has now dished out Vine app for Android, bringing the ability to post video tweets to an even larger mobile audience.
Last week, Charles Bolden, top administrator of NASA announced that the space agency plans to send a robotic spaceship to lasso a small asteroid and bring it closer to the moon for astronauts to explore. According to him the asteroid lasso mission would halt any apocalypse scenario in future.
Driving at night when it’s raining or snowing can be dangerous. It’s because, besides illuminating the road and the surrounding environment, the headlights also illuminate raindrops and snowflakes, making them appear as bright flickering streaks. And the driver’s view of the road ahead becomes obscured by brightly headlight-lit raindrops or snowflakes. But in future, headlights may turn the rain and snowflakes invisible, and enable the driver to see clearly through raindrops and snow.
Planetary Resources, formerly known as Arkyd Astronautics, is a billionaire-backed asteroid-mining company. Planetary Resources wants to mine asteroids for their sweet, sweet minerals and make a business out of it. Recently, we have come to know that the company plans to launch its first satellites in 2014.
Leap Motion has made a number of headlines in the recent past for creating different motion-control devices. The company has now announced that it has joined hands with HP, a deal which may finally bring gesture-control technology to the mainstream PC arena.
Earlier, we have seen a robotic lifeguard saving people from drowning. But it seems like lifeguards of the future may soon come with aerials. Iranian research firm RTS Lab in Tehran is developing an aerial robot named Pars, designed to save drowning people near the coastlines.